Chapter 54 Itachi?
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After the enormous water curtain remained in front of Yoruha for more than ten seconds, Yoruha withdrew his Chakra.
"Splaash~"
Without Yoruha's Chakra to sustain it, the gigantic wall of water instantly collapsed, flooding the surrounding area into a small lake.
That massive volume of water required enormous Chakra to maintain.
To keep up a water curtain of that scale, at minimum one needed Chakra at the level of a Jonin.
"Very strong. Much stronger than I expected. And just now, you also fused Wind Release into Water Formation Wall, didn't you?"
Kakashi said as he walked over.
Looking down at the flowing water around his feet, Yoruha nodded. "I feel like that kind of jutsu wouldn't be all that useful in actual combat."
Kakashi smiled. "It's a defensive jutsu. It's still very useful for blocking Fire Release."
"There are many ninja in the ninja world with extremely powerful Fire Release, like the Third Hokage."
"Although the Third Hokage is proficient in all five nature transformations, the ones he's best at are Fire Release and Earth Release."
"The temperature of the Third Hokage's Fire Release jutsu is far higher than the Uchiha Clan's."
"The destructive power is also much stronger. Ordinary Water Release jutsu simply can't block his Fire Release jutsu."
"But I do think the Water Formation Wall you used just now could stop it."
Thinking of the Third Hokage's Fire Release, even Kakashi had to admit it was powerful.
The Third Hokage's Fire Release really could break through elemental disadvantage and completely overpower Water Release.
That alone showed just how terrifying his Fire Release was.
Yoruha remembered that the Third Hokage's Fire Release really was powerful.
When he fought the Summoning: Impure World Reincarnation of the First and Second Hokage, his Fire Release had even been able to cancel out the Second Hokage's Water Release.
And the Second's specialty was Water Release jutsu.
Yet he had still been able to match the Second Hokage's Water Release evenly, even while at an elemental disadvantage.
"Kakashi-sensei, is the Uchiha Clan especially skilled with Fire Release?"
Yoruha asked, despite already knowing the answer.
Kakashi didn't know Yoruha understood the Uchiha Clan, so he explained, "The Uchiha Clan is Konohagakure's strongest Fire Release ninja clan."
"They have many self-created Fire Release jutsu, and their power is far greater than that of other ninja."
"Self-created Fire Release jutsu?"
Kakashi nodded. "Right. For example, Fireball Technique—after the Uchiha Clan improved it, it became Great Fireball Technique."
"It's actually the same jutsu, but the power of Great Fireball Technique is far above Fireball Technique."
"I've seen Itachi use it before."
Yoruha froze for a moment. "Itachi?"
At the mention of Itachi, Kakashi's expression grew grave.
He fell into memory.
"Yeah. Itachi. He used to be my colleague in the Anbu."
"He was a ninja with exceptionally high talent. It's just a pity that in the end, he did something that betrayed both the village and his clan."
Kakashi didn't know why Itachi had slaughtered his own clan.
Although Kakashi knew the truth absolutely couldn't be as simple as the village higher-ups claimed, he wasn't a member of the Uchiha Clan, so he had never looked into it too deeply.
He only thought it was a great pity. After all, the Uchiha Clan was Obito's clan, and Itachi was also a ninja he had thought highly of.
If Kakashi knew it was Obito and Itachi together who had slaughtered the Uchiha Clan,
he would probably regret saying it was a pity.
Yoruha thought for a moment and said, "I wonder why Itachi left Sasuke alive."
"At that time, Sasuke shouldn't have had any ability to resist, right?"
Kakashi looked at Yoruha. "Because Sasuke is Itachi's younger brother. And because of that, Sasuke hates Itachi deeply."
"When I asked him before what his dream was, he said his dream was to kill Itachi with his own hands."
Yoruha fell silent.
He didn't know what to say.
Sasuke really had it rough.
If the Uchiha Clan hadn't been massacred, Sasuke definitely wouldn't have the personality he had now.
Before the Uchiha Clan was wiped out, Sasuke's personality had actually been bright and cheerful. Back at the Academy, although he was also aloof, it was completely different from now.
Back then, his aloofness had been a kind of act—aloof because he was the most outstanding, the best student in the class, proud and cold.
But ever since the Uchiha Clan was slaughtered, his coldness had become indifference to everything around him. All he wanted was to grow stronger, kill Itachi, and avenge the Uchiha Clan. He had hidden away his own feelings, and he had no choice but to do so.
In truth, Sasuke had always been a very kind person deep down.
In a certain sense, Naruto's circumstances were indeed much better than his.
Naruto had at least always been watched over by the Third Hokage. He also had friends like Shikamaru, Choji, and Kiba who were willing to skip class with him.
Since he had never received the love of family, he didn't even really know what family felt like. So even when he was sad, it didn't truly shake his spirit.
But Sasuke had once had an incomparably happy family—a strict father, a loving mother, and a genius older brother he admired deeply.
And in the end, it was that very brother he worshiped most who slaughtered his clan, not even sparing their parents.
And before leaving, he had even forced Sasuke to relive how the clan had been massacred.
That kind of pain made it impossible for Sasuke not to want to become stronger.
In fact, Yoruha could tell that Sasuke also had feelings for Sakura.
When they were attacked before, Sasuke's first reaction had been to step in front of Sakura.
That had been Sasuke's first real battle.
Real combat and ordinary training were completely different things.
But he had stood in front of Sakura with barely any hesitation.
That alone proved that even though Sasuke had never openly shown any feelings for Sakura in ordinary times,
he definitely cared about her.
Yoruha could also understand Sasuke's pain.
He couldn't even imagine whether, if he had gone through the same experience as Sasuke, he would have gone mad.
He'd probably have become even more extreme than Sasuke.
When Yoruha first came to this world, he had thought growing up together with Naruto would be exciting.
After all, in his previous life, Yoruha really had been moved by Naruto's passionate spirit.
But after coming to this world and spending six years alongside Naruto, he had instead lost most of his interest in him.
Because originally, Yoruha had thought it was admirable that Naruto, in such a dark environment early on, had not gone to extremes.
But after arriving in this world and seeing many of the things Naruto did, as well as the friends around him,
Yoruha couldn't empathize with him at all anymore.
Because he had seen too many people like Naruto in his previous life.
Some of them had it far worse than Naruto ever did—after all, Naruto had always had the Third Hokage watching over him.
As a jinchūriki, he could still move freely around the village, and his pranks were on a huge scale.
He even dared to graffiti the Hokage Rock.
You could say that before, Yoruha had admired Naruto for not turning dark.
But after truly being his classmate for six years, Yoruha realized: wasn't it perfectly normal that Naruto didn't turn dark?
He had friends around him, wasn't short on money, skipped class all the time, got zero on every test, and still wasn't expelled. That was treatment fit for Konohagakure's crown prince—why would he turn dark?
No parents, no family—were there few children like that in Konohagakure?
Konohagakure already had many war orphans whose circumstances were far worse than Naruto's, and many of their parents had even been killed by Kurama during the Nine-Tails' Attack.